Barwich, Ann-Sophie (2020) Imaging the living brain: Reductionism revisited in times of dynamical systems. [Preprint]
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Withstanding contemporary fashion in the philosophy of science, this paper outlines an argument in favor of reductionist explanations of sensory perception via molecular mechanisms in neurobiology. It explores in depth the recent application of new real-time molecular imaging techniques to mixture coding in olfaction. Seemingly emergent psychological expressions of odor, irreducible to the physical structure of the stimulus, are linked back to underlying molecular mechanisms at the receptor level. This paper explicates the necessity to rethink the reductionist conceptualizations of material causes in parallel with advances in experimental methodology.
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